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A 2.7-hectare enclave of opium parlours, whorehouses and gambling dens run by triads, it was a place where police, health inspectors and even tax collectors feared to tread. In Cantonese, it was known as the City of Darkness. But though it may have been a fetid slum, crawling with rats and dripping with sewage, it was stoutly defended to the last by those who lived there, as well as an unlikely ensemble of Chinese shopkeepers, faith healers and self-taught dentists.
It was once thought to be the most densely populated place on earth, with 35 - 50,000 people crammed into a few tiny apartment blocks and more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect. But in March 1993, the last batch of residents finally accepted the government’s rehousing terms and compensation terms. It brought down the final curtain on a bizarre chapter of Hong Kong’s colonial past.
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Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Until it was demolished in 1992 it was the most densely populated place on Earth. This is a video shot 1990.
This article has some excellent pictures :
A-rare-insight-Kowloon-Walled-City (Daily Mail)
also check this illustration: CITY OF ANARCHY
In case you're speaking german: (ask youtube for subtitles)
